Improvement in eyeglasses



H. FOWLER. EYE-GLASSES.

No.18O,708. Patented Augn8, 1876.

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ILPETERS. PFOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D..O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY FOWLER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN EYEGLASSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 180,708, dated August 8, 1876; application filed July 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LHARVEY FOWLER, of Washington city, District of Columbia, have invented an Improvement in the Construction of the Apparatus Connected with the Frames or Rims of Eyeglasses, the purpose of which is to furnish a method of holding the glasses upright, and preventing them from tipping forward, of which the following is a specificag tion Referring to the drawing, the adjustment of the glasses upon the nose is shown in Fig. I; and Fig. 11 is a plan view, showing the braces a a, pendent in the plane of the glasses, ready to beinfolded when not in use.

My improvement consists ofa pair of sli gh tl yflexible braces or supporters, at a, hinged or pivoted upon a stem, e, or other projection from the upper'and inner portion of the rim of each glass, so as to be deflected forward along the sides of the nose when the glasses are adjusted before the eyes, being checked by a shoulder, or by a pinch in thejoint at 0, so as to prevent them trom turning too far, thus sustaining said glasses in their upright position.

I c1aini The hinged flexible braces or supporters at a, connected with the stems 00, as and for the purpose specified.

HARVEY FOWLER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS C. OoNNoLLY, B. H. WEST. 

